The Columbia Plaza complex, in Washington, DC, was an urban renewal project first proposed by William Finlay and John Searles of the Redevelopment Land Agency in November of 1959. In May 1960, John McShain was asked to participate. This project foresaw the building of an 800 unit luxury apartments, 400 hotel rooms and a 1, 500-car garage. The cost was originally estimated at $25 million. In 1962 John McShain, Inc. received 26% of the stock in the Columbia Plaza Corporation in exchange for agreeing to build the complex on a cost plus-fixed fee basis. The project was partially funded by a Federal Housing Authority mortgage. When this proved to be insufficient to complete the construction, John McShain agreed to proceed in exchange for all the outstanding stock in the corporation. However, by 1967 he did not have the staff to complete the job since all of his key Washington area personnel were involved with the Kennedy Center. He, therefore, subcontracted the job to the Pomponio Construction Company. Paul Fry, who had for more than thirty years been secretary-treasurer of John McShain, Inc., was McShain's main contact with the Pomponio Company - particularly when John McShain was in Ireland. When McShain realized that the project which was years behind schedule and over budget was being mismanaged he canceled the contract with the Pomponios and dismissed Paul Fry. John McShain, Inc., completed the project. However, in 1972 the matter wound up in court and resulted in more than a decade of litigation. This subseries contains the documentation on the Columbia Plaza cases. Included are trial transcripts, depositions, pleadings and copies of claims, and discovery documents which trace the history of the Columbia Plaza project